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BlockPy is a very weird thing.

This article came up on Hacker News yesterday about Canon, a simple MUD that the developer created to let his daughter make video games.

Let us say that you were developing a new course, and needed to decide on the grading scheme.

TL;DR: Computer Science Education should pay attention to the lesson learned in K-12 English Education about Balanced Literacy, and move cautiously while trying to integrate Large Language Models into the curriculum.

It’s been over a year since my last blog post, even though I have tons to write about.

This has been a challenging semester for my students.

Last week, I posted on the SIGCSE-Members listserv asking for guidance on supporting black students in CS1.

It’s been about half a year since I last posted, because it’s been a busy time creating new tools and curricula.

I just got back my Spring 2019 teaching evaluations, so I wanted to do a second self-evaluation on how the CISC320 Algorithms course went.

Before the end of last year, I posted a blog asking, “What do we know about CS1?”

I made a better follow-up to this post based on an awesome journal paper that came out around the same time!